. >> of the secretary of defense said in response to the request for the national bride. this morning i was briefed again by the general and was so honored and blessed by his service and another general who is working with him on making some recommendations to us about how we go forward. that will be a part of the commission to review the command and control in the interagency of operation or lack there of. one important thing would be really good if washington dc or if the district of columbia could operate as a state as any governor can do is to call out the national guard without getting the permission of the federal government and it shouldn't have to happen that way and if you see the letter, excuse me, january 4 letter from the secretary of defense saying what he wasn't going to do, it is most unfortunate but i think everything has to be subjected to the harshest review to make sure that this doesn't come again. it we cannot be in better hands than the general who had such experience and commands so much respect in this regard and then further to that to pursue a lon

the war brides act. this was the answer the war brides were waiting for. congress enacted exceptions to the national origin quotas in the immigration act of 1924 and they did so to allow them to get to america. they had three years to move the families to the united states. it was expanded a few months later to include the fiancees. and that bill was a three-month temporary visa for the foreign fiancees. they had three months to marry or else they had to return home. it did not begin until after the passage of this bill and the first operation war bride sailed from southampton to new york had 750 war brides on it. the act addressed the chinese wives on a non-quota basis. but they did not get japanese wives yet. that would come in 1947. as you can see, i feel that this was a pretty big impact of world war ii. the queen mary, which used to transport soldiers back and forth to england, i know that my husband's grandfather sailed on the queen mary when he was heading for "d"-day, and training in britain. the queen mary took about 12,886 g.i. war brides to the u.s. from great britain. it was not a pleasa

olympic games which were of course delayed by a year because of the virus from a bride has this report. trailing other developed nations and many of its asian neighbors by many weeks finally japan is rolling out its vaccines the 1st people to get the pfizer jab are thousands of health workers often criticised for failing to use the latest technology in controlling the outbreak japan is now using a popular online messaging service to centralize the vaccination booking system but a lack of specialized syringes means millions of doses could be wasted safe to sure since the vaccines are very valuable the government is working to procure more special for engines that can extract 6 doses from. contributing to the delayed rollout has been the requirement for extensive testing of the vaccine in a country that historically has a mistrust of mass vaccination campaigns. the vaccine was developed so quickly so it scares me to think about it side effects and its effectiveness. i have a concerns but i'll get through it becomes available japan has imposed strict border controls which it believes has helped in keeping the outbreak und

the biden administration is working on several different things. one difference between president bride -- biden and former president trump is the willingness to engage with international allies and other nationsat was something that trump to a certain extent really backed off the world stage, not being part of the world health organization, getting off the paris claimant accords. this is on the same time of the vaccine biden is trying to reestablish connections across the world including things like look year -- looking at the nuclear agreement again. lisa: can you give me a sense about the support behind it. president biden's approach to china is similar to president trump's, but how about other policies and support on both sides of the aisle in congress that he has. emily: there are certain things that there are more partisan tensions around the nuclear agreement and different things regarding the middle east with israel and jerusalem and palestine, but there are things that have a lot of bipartisan support. china is one of those areas where you see people on both sides of the aisle who are backing president biden's wants to crack down on china being more aggressive on their violation of hu

teacher from alabama, talks about these war brides, and their experiences during the war and after moving to the u.s.. hosted by the friends of the nationalworld war ii

teacher from alabama, talks about these war brides and their experiences both during the war and after moving to the united states. hosted by the friends of the national world war ii memorial this is 45 minutes. >> hello, my name is erin coggins. i am honored to be presenting at the virtual history conference. this is a subject dear to my heart. today i'm going to talk to you about war brides.

teacher from alabama, talks about these war brides, and their experiences during the war and after moving to the u.s.. hosted by the friends of the national world war ii memorial, this is 45 minutes. >> hello my name is erin, and i am honored to be presenting at this first virtual conference. i teach in history class on world war ii, and work closely with world war ii veterans. this is a subject near to my heart. today i will talk to you about war brides. i have title this presentation, first came of, then came marriage, then came life in a strange new land, an affair will to everything familiar. it's a subject it hasn't received much attention, you will see a lot on canadian war brides, but not much on american war brides. this is a source that is untapped. between 1942 and 1952, 1 million american soldiers, married foreign women from 50 different countries. if you look at the presentation here, it's a rough breakdown. it's an estimate. 100,000 were british, 150 to 200,000 were from continental europe, about 16,000 were from australia and new zealand, 50 to 100,000 from the far east, including japan, and by 1950, 14,175 were given women.

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